Shooting Down Drop-Ships Pointless?

[Boomer]

More of a general observation, but as of right now shooting down a drop-ship feels like I'm just wasting ammo. The majority, if not all of the units will survive every time. Stategem Turrets will also always target an incoming ship, wasting a lot of ammo for literally no reward.
The vast majority if not every unit being carried should be killed when their drop-ship crashes and explodes on top of them like that. I could accept Tanks and Hulks surviving and maybe a few Devastators albeit with damage (missing an arm maybe?) - But NOT lighter units like the Kommisar and basic infantry. Give us some incentive / reward for making that shot to down a ship, currently it just doesn't make sense to bother.

[MoFuk MoGuns]

most of the time the ship crashes on them and does nothing, meanwhile a flying dead bug was killing titans

[Twisty]

Shoot it down before it drops them.

[Korrex]

The bots (like us) appear to have a brief moment of invincibility while they drop (otherwise they'd probably die from the fall damage).

I've had the most success either hitting them pre-drop or waiting for the drop to fully finish and then hitting them.

[kebabsoup]

Originally posted by Banananas:

Shoot it down before it drops them.

Yeah exactly, the earlier you can shoot them down in the drop sequence the better. I actually really like this as it requires some skills to down the dropships before they start dropping. And it's up to you to evaluate if you should risk missing a shot or if you should wait for a safer shot that will be less effective.

[Botji]

Originally posted by Korrex:

The bots (like us) appear to have a brief moment of invincibility while they drop (otherwise they'd probably die from the fall damage).

I've had the most success either hitting them pre-drop or waiting for the drop to fully finish and then hitting them.

^ This.

But the dropship also often blocks their pathing/vision so they just stand there which takes off a lot of pressure when the 6-8 Devastators + Hulk they dropped is just.. well, not doing anything at all for like a minute.

You can also often get free shots on them like that(sometimes dropship blocks the shots tho) so even if shooting down the dropship doesnt kill them, its still often worth doing it.

[Boomer]

Originally posted by Banananas:

Shoot it down before it drops them.

I have tried this on the exterminate missions but the kill count doesn't go up and they still come marching out. So it doesn't seem to be reliable or 100% on killing them?

[Anarchy]

Originally posted by kebabsoup:

Originally posted by Banananas:

Shoot it down before it drops them.

Yeah exactly, the earlier you can shoot them down in the drop sequence the better. I actually really like this as it requires some skills to down the dropships before they start dropping. And it's up to you to evaluate if you should risk missing a shot or if you should wait for a safer shot that will be less effective.

I've seen what OP is describing, even when they shoot the moment they turn up

So... No....

Originally posted by Botji:

Originally posted by Korrex:

The bots (like us) appear to have a brief moment of invincibility while they drop (otherwise they'd probably die from the fall damage).

I've had the most success either hitting them pre-drop or waiting for the drop to fully finish and then hitting them.

^ This.

But the dropship also often blocks their pathing/vision so they just stand there which takes off a lot of pressure when the 6-8 Devastators + Hulk they dropped is just.. well, not doing anything at all for like a minute.

You can also often get free shots on them like that(sometimes dropship blocks the shots tho) so even if shooting down the dropship doesnt kill them, its still often worth doing it.

Also untrue, because they'll shoot out of it.

[ACEsino]

sometimes it wipes them all, other times it doesnt even scrath their paint, if it even gets fixed Quasar and EAT will be even better

[Furry Eskimo]

It looks cool. 😎

[Anarchy]

Originally posted by ACEsino:

sometimes it wipes them all, other times it doesnt even scrath their paint, if it even gets fixed Quasar and EAT will be even better

Even when it works, it wipes only the infantry dudes, it doesn't have any effect on anything heavier armored than them, aka berserkers, dev's, hulks.

[shadrays]

Even if the bot's survive it's still very satisfying to shoot them down.

[Anarchy]

Originally posted by Deep Rock Galactic:

Yep, entire ship crashes on them, and they dont get damaged. But then they shoot you through the fallen ship. I was told once this game has bad performance because of the advanced physics lmao

People who are trying to say they won't shoot out of it obviously haven't ran into heavy devastators no-clipping their arm into terrain to spray them down through a cliff.
Or, you flank them, and they turn their arm all the way inside of themselves, shooting at you through themselves plus their shield while doing this.

[ACEsino]

Originally posted by Anarchy:

Originally posted by ACEsino:

sometimes it wipes them all, other times it doesnt even scrath their paint, if it even gets fixed Quasar and EAT will be even better

Even when it works, it wipes only the infantry dudes, it doesn't have any effect on anything heavier armored than them, aka berserkers, dev's, hulks.

I have seen it kill heavies sometimes, specially tanks

[Styrian]

you have to shoot them down before they drop. if you are ever in a mission with an SAM anti-air you will notice it does just that and no bots survive

[Anarchy]

Originally posted by ACEsino:

Originally posted by Anarchy:

Even when it works, it wipes only the infantry dudes, it doesn't have any effect on anything heavier armored than them, aka berserkers, dev's, hulks.

I have seen it kill heavies sometimes, specially tanks

Yellow flag, 100% absolute CAP detected, deducting 100 good boy points.

Originally posted by Styrian:

you have to shoot them down before they drop. if you are ever in a mission with an anti-air you will notice it does just that and no bots survive

Also cap, because I've had SEAF sites shoot them down, same thing, it kills the infantry, everything medium armor and heavier survives and usually doesn't get stuck.